You can specify an action without a form bean with this syntax:
<action path="/main"
forward="/Main.jsp">
</action>
The limitation here is that there is no corresponding Struts Action class
either. The above syntax is a solution I had to use when the customer
wanted a button to trigger a URL as opposed to a hyperlink trigger.
As far as I was able to determine, you cannot specify an action in the
struts configuration that has an action class, but no form-bean. My
application has plenty of screens that triggered actions on form submit,
but had no entry fields on them. In these cases I used the normal action
syntax in the struts configuration file but pointed to a "dummy form" - a
form bean with no properties.
Allowing an action to be specified with an action class but no form bean
would be a nice struts enhancement.
Jim Weaver
Software Developer - ThoughtWorks
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Can I have a JSP form without a form bean?
I dont need the bean, there are no input fields on form.
I defined action like this:
<action path="/main"
type="addressbook.MainAction"
input="/main.jsp"
>
</action>
But it threw an exception:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot retrieve definition for
form bean null
Maris
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